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New York 2008: First "Volt Nation" meeting held
New York is the place to be this week for all things automotive and amongst the throngs that have journeyed to the Big Apple to gawk at the latest offerings were a group of hard-core Chevy Volt fans. They came from all across the country to gather together under the banner of "Volt Nation" for a chance to see the concept version of the object of their affection up close and ask questions of some of the GM executives responsible for the E-Flex development program.
Organized by Dr. Lyle Dennis (pictured above on the left), creator of the popular GM-Volt fan website, the group of about 300 souls converged on the Jacob Javitz Center for an event that, for probably the first time, brought car company officials and consumers together to ask questions of each other. Our favorite GM exec, Bob Lutz, was on hand as was design chief, Frank Weber.
So what was learned about the upcoming Volt? From scouring the posts of attendees we hear that the battery should begin life with a 50 mile range, that's 10 miles more than originaly thought and it can be plugged into regular 110V outlet or 220V. It is being designed as a "global" vehicle so it could sport either right hand and left hand drive and will comply with emissions regulations world-wide.
[Source: GM-Volt]
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Ryan Dunbar 8:02PM (3/20/2008)
Energy*Mass2=Mass1*(1/Energy)
Mass1=Higher State of Matter
Mass2=Sum of the Lower State of Matter
E=mc2=Wrong equation, Bob needs to use my Theory of Everything to build their cars at GM
String Theory
Newton
The Universe consist of Energy and Matter that it, no fourth dimension of time or 3 dimensions either which are man-made tools that the universe doesn't care about, dark energy, worm holes! Even a kid in grade school can learn how the Universe works simply. I can't believe it works out so simple. You don't need to go school to learn about confusing equations from people who got the wrong conclusion by building on each others work. Nature follows simple rules and you can see it build up to us.
Everything has mass, even light! which academics has been telling people for years because they used Einstein equations....
It looks confusing but this equation explains how the universe works. You can keep taking it down to each state of matter It looks like Einstein and Newton (things never stay at rest which is not true) had the wrong conclusion on how gravity, Energy, and time worked. This equation even explains how things work on Earth, even the subprime mortgage mess, bacteria, your car, and life in general.
Time doesn't slow down the faster you travel, Light doesn't travel forever-it just continues to pick up energy on along the way, Traveling at the speed of light will mean you will see nothing. There is no particles that gives us Mass.
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